Melissa Milewski

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of Sussex, Brighton, England

Lecturer in American History

Jan 2016-Present

Teaching Fields: 16th, 17th-, 18th-, 19th, 20th, and 21st- century African American History, Slavery and Emancipation in the U.S. and Atlantic World, African-American Political History; History of African American Women; U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. Civil Rights Movement,

Legal History, Social Justice Movements, Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History

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Columbia University, New York, NY

Visiting Scholar and Instructor, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race,

June 2014-Dec. 2015

ACLS New Faculty Fellow, History Department/Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Sept. 2012-May 2014

Contributor, “The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaelogy of the A14,” BBC Radio 4 Making History Programme, June 2018.

Contributor, “Judge Lynch on Trial,” documentary film directed by John Wertheimer, Davidson College, April 2018.

Co-Founder and Host of TrumpWatchSussex, a podcast associated with the Centre for American Studies at Sussex University which interviews scholars and experts to get the back story on various elements of the Trump Administration. Hosted and helped edited nine podcasts, including a podcasts on populism, Confederate monuments, Trump and the Southwest, and Trump and celebrity. The podcasts I have hosted have led to articles in Newsweek and Politico that have helped to shape coverage on issues such as white supremacy in the US.

Interviewee, “Litigating Across the Color Line,” New Books Network podcast, November 2017.